If it’s felt like something has been missing from Kotaku for the last month, that’s because someone wonderful has been away. As many of you have noticed and inquired about, our beloved colleague, senior writer, and Hatsune Miku aficionado Mike Fahey has not been writing for the site he’s called home for the last dozen…

You will see fewer posts on Kotaku today, because the women on our staff are on strike as part of the “Day Without A Woman” to commemorate International Women’s Day. The strike is one aspect of a day intended to raise awareness about the value women contribute to society and the issues of inequality that they face. We…

As the weather gets colder, you need to wear more layers. We’d love if one of those layers had the Kotaku logo on it, and you can make sure that happens by buying some official Kotaku apparel at our new online store. The initial batch of items includes t-shirts, hoodies and stickers.

Bethesda Softworks, makers of Skyrim, Dishonored and other fine games and franchises, is the latest game publisher not rushing to have their games reviewed, at least not by game reviewers. It’s something all gamers should factor in as they assess when and how they’ll find out if a game is worth their time and money.

This past weekend, I found a couple of small box in my apartment full of memories from when I was writing about video games for MTV News a decade ago. They might as well have been a buried time capsule.

The news is out that Gawker Media, our parent company, is up for sale as part of a filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This was due to an unprecedented legal assault financed in secret by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. What does that mean for Kotaku? Thankfully, not much. We aren’t going anywhere.

People, it’s less than a week until the big E3 press conferences begin and you just might be in the mood to talk about the big show. Or maybe you just want to talk about games that are out now or about Kotaku. Got questions? We’ll do our best to answer!

An article concocted to attack one of our writers and our publication as a whole several years ago continues to make the rounds, most recently in a video that’s garnered more than 500,000 views on YouTube in the last two days.

In 2015, you liked reading about Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3. You liked lists of top games. You mourned the passing of gaming icons. You craved scoops and post-release coverage (phew!), and you enjoyed getting excited about the Final Fantasy VII remake. You also liked reading about sex. Hey, nothing bad about that!…

As the year winds down, we ran our annual round-up of best surprises and biggest disappointments. Disappointments got the better traffic yet again! Both posts were among my favorites of the week, as were these five:

It’s not just the Christmas season that seems to start earlier each year. The year-in-review season is on its way to a November launch, too. We hold out as long as possible, to give the full 12 months our consideration, but we did spend part of last week assessing the states of the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U in 2015.…

It’s supposed to get slow in December, but it sure wasn’t slow last week, not with fresh game releases, some new controversies, a big awards show and a PlayStation fan festival full of game announcements. My favorite stuff from what we ran last week: